• iPad’s A5X Benchmarked Against Nvidia’s Tegra 3

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    iPad’s A5X Against Nvidia’s Tegra 3

    iPad’s A5X Against Nvidia’s Tegra 3

    During the new iPad announcement Apple’s VP Phil Schiller made it clear that Apple’s new A5X chip was much faster than the latest Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. which believed to be the cutting edge of mobile technology.

    Australian tech blogger Ritchie has put the claim to the test by doing a side-by-side video comparison of the new iPad and the Tegra 3-powered ASUS Transformer Prime.

    The results, while not as dramatic as Apple’s claims of 4 times the graphics processing power of the Tegra 3, do show conclusively that the A5X chip that sports dual-core CPU and quad-core GPU trounces the quad-core, 12-core graphics Tegra 3. Apple once again showing that raw specifications don’t necessarily make for a better experience.

    Watch the results for yourself below:

    [via TUAW]

  • iPhone iOS 5 Outperforms Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone in Browser Benchmark Tests

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    iPhone iOS 5 Outperforms Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone in Browser Benchmark Tests

    Here is a cool comparison test which shows the power of iPhone 4S along with iOS 5. The guys at 359gsm recently ran a test including iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3, iPhone 4S running iOS 5 against Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. iPhone 4S significantly outperform Nokia in all benchmark tests.

    The results are shown below courtesy of 359gsm, you can watch the test video above as well:

    Browsermark Test: Higher is better

    • iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 37 503
    • Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 30 452
    • iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 86 702

    Speed Reading Test:

    • iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 2 fps (iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0 – around 37 fps)
    • Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 40 fps
    • iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 60 fps

    Sunspider Test: Lower is better

    • iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 4018.2 ms
    • Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 7188.7 ms
    • iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 2266 ms

    Acid3 Test:

    • iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 100/100
    • Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 100/100
    • iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 100/100

    HTML5 Test:

    • iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 210
    • Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 141
    • iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 296

  • iPad 2 Speed Test shows it’s 4x Faster than Original iPad

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    CNET.co.uk did some Javascript benchmarks on the new iPad running iOS 4.3 and compared them with other iOS devices and a few Androids.

    The results are pretty impressive.  Where the iPhone 4 and iPad lagged behind both Android devices using iOS 4.2, popping iOS 4.3 with the new WebKit 2 browser engine in the devices dropped more than half of their rendering time.

    As you can see, the iPad 2, with its more powerful processor, and perhaps helped by some additional RAM, is over 50% faster than the previous iPad.